From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 94 10:15:07 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Transparent Email
In-Reply-To: <199411290803.CAA00300@omaha.omaha.com>
Message-ID: <199411291633.IAA05260@jobe.shell.portal.com>
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Alex Strasheim <alex@omaha.com> writes:

>I think it's a bad idea to require signatures on the list, or even to 
>penalize people who don't use them.  People aren't signing their posts 
>because it's too much of a hassle to do it from a dial up, netcom style, 
>account, not because they're insufficiently committed to the cause.

>It seems to me that such a rule would stifle discussion and encourage 
>people to store their keys on insecure accounts.

Just create a special key for your netcom account.  Use no pass phrase;
using one would give a misleading sense of security IMO.  Just pass your
mail through "pgp -saft" or equivalent and you've got it.  It is easy to
do this from most editors.

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